William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Interactive: Touring SW Virginia's Civil War trails Listen to reenactments of soldiers' journal entries, explore panoramic photos of Civil War sites and take this map with you as you travel the ...

Civil War buffs are getting access to a treasure trove of information — thousands of original maps and diagrams of battles and military campaigns between 1861 and 1865, all posted on the Internet.

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County.

Just how long it took the internet to start buzzing after a previously unknown map of Civil War Gloucester Point surfaced earlier this year is hard to measure. But according to historian J. Michael… ...

Four historic sites associated with the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg are part of the new Coastal Virginia Civil War wayfinding brochure created by Virginia Civil War Trails.

Civil War's United States has been splintered into multiple warring factions, but a shared enemy has united most of them against the Loyalist States.

Landscapers were blown away when they found a possible civil war cannonball while working in the yard of a Virginia home, as official warn residents to call authorities if making such a discovery t… ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An acre of land owned by the city of Richmond contains potentially hundreds of unmarked graves, some of which could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War ...

Virginia is doling out $1.3 million in grants to protect 211 acres of battlefields, with the shocker being that some of the money will protect properties associated with the actions of Black ...

Several Civil War-era structures have been discovered under a construction site in downtown Richmond.